MOLDY CHUM

Wam Bam Graffam

Jackson, WY guide, Josh Graffam, sends his love from Reefton New Zealand. This 9.5 lb beast was one of the biggest they've encountered to date, but as you can see from his album, massive fish are not a foreign concept to these boys.

Salmon for the Sandy

To celebrate dam removal on the Sandy artists painted and gilded 32 salmon sculptures that were auctioned off to benefit the river.  Via: The Western Rivers Conservancy  LINK

Pacific Salmon Invading Atlantic

Pacific salmon escapees from Chilean salmon farms are now a threat to South Atlantic ecosystems.

Although the sight of salmon leaping in Argentina's world-renowned trout rivers may be enticing to anglers, the silvery predators could become a nightmare for the region's marine life. Via: National Geographic News  LINK

Mine and Money vs. Indigenous and Salmon

Karl Vick of the Washington Post weighs in on the Pebble Mine. Via: Mostly Water LINK

Sunday Funnies

Hopper Technique

At the buzzer

Severson tucks this lightning bolt in at the last minute.  Taken on the Salmon River (NY, not our local little flow).

Les Claypool - Snake River Cutthroat

XXX Fishing

Extreme Fishing

The Domesday Book of Giant Salmon

Fred Buller, has collected the dates, weights, and documented stories of every known Atlantic salmon over 50lb caught on the fly, and all salmon over 60lbs caught with prawns, nets, or other means. LINK

the one trailer

The Trailer/Teaser to the fly fishing film "the one" from gray ghost productions.  LINK

McNair Evans Photography

The fly fishing gallery. LINK

Zombie Fishing Trip

by Brian Rosenberger -

No bites in the morning save for bugs

drowning in ocular fluid

rubbing and rubbing

out plopped his eye

Via: Tales of the Zombie War LINK

Previously on M.C. LINK

Below Lusby

Steelhead Addiction Starts in the Womb

This was Marie's last chance for her first steelhead unless someone starts selling maternity waders.

Fly Fishing at Twilight

Just one of the intricate headstock inlays of guitar builder and inlay artist Grit Laskin.

Via: Modern Guitars Magazine LINK

This Is Fly

Twas The Night Before Caddis

A Chum Christmas Eve tradition.

Twas the night before Christmas when down by the stream
The full moon looked out on a chill winter scene.
A lone trout was sipping a midge in his brook,
Untroubled by worries of fishers with hooks.

Then from above a small sleigh did appear
Pulled by a brace of eight tiny reindeer.
It swerved of a sudden and down it did glide,
Settling its runners along the streamside.

LINK

Happy Holidays!

Sunday Funnies

Way to go - Ignacio

Flogger: Ignacio Maldonado

Slab: 32" brown trout

Flow: Truckee River, Reno, NV   

Bug: #12 Black Burk's Aggravator,  4X tippet

Harshn our mellow

Twas the week before Christmas when all through the house not a creature was stirring - until Grant Harsh submitted this freakish 28.5" West Virginia brown.  The month and year are nearing the end, and our man Grant strikes hard and strikes fast.

It ain't over till it's over

Fly Fishing Film Tour Raffle

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Cackalaki Hog

 

Wearing a hat from a deceased fly shop in my hometown, John Hicks hoists his SOM entry in a North Carolina flow nowhere near Tacoma, Wa.  Have stick, will travel.

Thatsabigphuckintaimen

Who is the Angler in this picture?  Ask your guide friends, lodge pals, or any bug addict you know.  The first person that identifies this dude, and gives us a little background on where he got this jurassic striper, we'll hook up with a free Reel Pure Glareproof Lid. Email referrals to thatsphuckinbig@reelpure.com .

I'll have the steak please

Here in southern China, beneath the looming mountains of Fujian Province, lie dozens of enormous ponds filled with murky brown water and teeming with eels, shrimp and tilapia, much of it destined for markets in Japan and the West.

“Our waters here are filthy,” said Ye Chao, an eel and shrimp farmer who has 20 giant ponds in western Fuqing. “There are simply too many aquaculture farms in this area. They’re all discharging water here, fouling up other farms.”

Farmers have coped with the toxic waters by mixing illegal veterinary drugs and pesticides into fish feed, which helps keep their stocks alive yet leaves poisonous and carcinogenic residues in seafood, posing health threats to consumers.

Via: The NY Times  LINK

Vote Moldy Chum!

While we prepare to wrap up our 2007 edition of Slab of the Year, Fish with JD is wrapping up their brilliant Smoker of the Year Contest. LINK

Dems Take Wide Stance on Larry Craig Water Flow Measure

Senate Democrats thwarted Idaho Sen. Larry Craig's bid to use a federal spending bill to dictate water flow for Northwest salmon.

A bill approved by Congress removed a Craig-sponsored amendment directing the Bush administration to go forward with a policy on Northwest fish that a judge has twice ruled illegal.  Via The Montery Herald LINK

Fly Wallets!

While Santa might not quite get it to you on time, this one is certainly better late than never.  Our bro McRowdy will customize these fly wallets in any way you can imagine.  Do yourself a favor and check this craftsmanship out.